After Effects Basic

• Digital video basics
• Digital media management
• Layers and compositing
• Keyframes and motion paths
• Working with and animating text
• Working with 3D effects
• Rendering and exporting projects

After Effects Advanced

• Advanced Visual Effects Workflow
• Chroma Keying
• Motion Tracking & Stabilization
• 3D Camera Tracking
• Time Remapping
• Advanced Color Correction & Adjustments
• Rotoscoping & Render Queue, Effects

Adobe After Effects is a digital visual effect, motion graphics, and compositing application developed by Adobe Systems and used in the post-production process of filmmaking and television production. Among other things, After Effects can be used for keying, tracking, compositing, and animation.

Lesson 1. Digital Video basics

• Analog versus digital
• Frame rate and resolution
• Understanding your Storage space
• Knowing your system requirements
• Defining motion Graphics

Lesson 2. After Effects Interface

• Creating a project
• Understanding the After Effects panel system
• Understanding the Composition Window
• Working in the Timeline Window
• RAM Preview vs. Standard Preview

Lesson 3. Media Management

• Importing media files
• Importing Photoshop and Illustrator files
• Previewing footage, stills and video, audio
• Trimming a video clip
• Using the Interpret Footage dialog box
• Looping an audio or video file

Lesson 4. Layers in Adobe After Effects

• Layer basics
• Layer options
• Creating a layer solid
• Understanding the layer switches
• Time stretch and frame blending
• Nesting compositions/layers using precomps

Lesson 5. Using Keyframes in Adobe After Effects

• Animation of layer properties using keyframes
• Using layer parenting to ease repetition
• Understanding motion paths
• Working with layer blending
• Controlling the speed of animations
• Easing principles

Lesson 6. Using text in Adobe After Effects

• Creating text
• Character palette
• Paragraph palette
• Animating text with keyframes
• Animating text using presets
• Using Bridge with After Effects

Lesson 7. Masking, Alpha Channels &Effects

• Masking
• Animating masks
• Working with alpha channels
• Track Matte
• Effect basics
• Animating effects

Lesson 8. Introduction to 3D in After Effects

• Exploring the 3D capabilities
• Creating 3D layers
• Using multiple viewports
• Understanding 3D Transform properties
• Creating and using lights
• Animating 3D layers

• Rendering from a composition to various formats
• Understanding the Render Queue
• Adjusting render settings
• Duplicating jobs in the Render Queue

• Creating render templates
• Exporting a project file
• Rendering an individual frame

Lesson 10. Advanced After Effects workflow

• Working more efficiently in After Effects
• Understanding the After Effects workspace

Lesson 11. 3D camera tracking

• Using the 3d camera tracker Compositing
• 3d graphics with video

Lesson 12. Chroma keying

• Understanding greenscreen shooting basics
• Using masks for compositing
• Using garbage mattes
• Using keylight Refining a matte

Lesson 13. Motion tracking

• Understanding motion tracking
• Motion tracking vs stabilization
• Setting a track point
• Using null objects & warp stabilizer

Lesson 14. Time remapping video

• Understanding time remapping
• Slow motion effects
• Fast motion effects
• Using frame blending
• Color correction and adjustment
• Adjusting tonality
• Adjusting Color

Lesson 15. Creating a background loop

• Expressions overview
• Creating scripts
• Using expressions
• Effect parameters
• Layer index
• Creating keyframe looping
• Conditional events

Lesson 16. Using the cloning tools

• Understanding high dynamic range
• Creating linear HDR compositing
• Understanding color management
• Creating Look up tables (LUT)

Lesson 17. Color, light, and heat

• Creating Lighting qualities
• Changing lighting direction & light strength
• Creating reflections & realistic shadow
• Understanding Multipass 3D compositing

Lesson 18. Creating environmental effects

• Creating fog, smoke, mist, wind, precipitation
• Making realistic fire and heat distortion
• Creating explosive effects

Lesson 19. Rotoscoping video footage

• Creating manual rotoscoping
• Using the roto brush
• Using the paint brush to Painting on color

Lesson 20. Project optimization

• Using Media management
• Managing multiple projects
• Optimizing system performance
• Optimizing render speed
• Render queue Output module templates